Description:
Here, at last, is the book that every true lover of the theatre has long
awaited—the biography of Theatre Royal, Drury Lane.
While it is by no means a definitive history of the famous theatre (several
volumes would be required for such a task), it is nevertheless a complete
chronicle of Drury Lane's colourful and exciting career from the time it
opened in 1663 right down to the present day (1945).
It is a truly wonderful story of great plays, great players and great managers.
A story that no other theatre in the world can rival, for in the narrative there
is all the romance and high drama of a work of fiction.

Pictorial front board repeats the jacket illustration; the spine and rear board
are of black cloth. Gilt text on spine. Illustrated throughout with high quality
b&w photographs and reproductions. Pastedowns and endpapers have facsimiles of
two original posters from the theatre: one of the 1850 production of The
Rivals and the other of the 1776 production of The Wonder.

The jacket is unclipped (17/6 net.) and has minor scuffing along the top and some
nicks at the head of the spine. It also has a 2 cm (0.8″) tear at the rear
where it meets the lower edge. The book itself is in very good condition. Despite
being produced to War Economy standards, the pages haven't a jot of foxing and
appear to have largely resisted tanning (though there is a very faint hint in
the gutter on certain pages).